1. MEMORY: THE EYEWITNESS ON TRIAL

2. The Conditions of Confabulation
___________________________: Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.
How is this
different from
source amnesia?

3. Confabulation EASY TO IMAGINE Confabulation is most likely when:
You have thought about the event many times
The image of the event contains many details
The event is ____________________________
You focus on emotional reactions to the event rather than what actually happened.
EASY TO IMAGINE

4. Eyewitness Testimony
Eyewitness testimony is especially vulnerable to mistakes when:
The suspect’s ethnicity differs from that of the witness
When leading questions are put to witnesses
When the witnesses are given misleading information

5. The Eyewitness on Trial
WHY ARE CONFABULATION AND SOURCE AMNESIA SO COMMON?
The reconstructive nature of memory makes memory vulnerable to suggestion ?

6. Children’s Testimony ALMOST 80% SAID YES!
If asked if a visitor committed acts that had not occurred, few 4-6 year olds said yes.
30% of 3-year-olds said yes
When investigators used techniques taken from real child-abuse investigations, ____________________________________
ALMOST 80% SAID YES!

7. QUICK QUIZ TIME!

8. QUICK QUIZ TIME!
The inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were told about an event later is called ___________

9. QUICK QUIZ TIME!
Entry points for raw data that begins the process of memory are called ______.

10. QUICK QUIZ TIME!
Jon told you a story about seeing a blue car run a stop sign. Months later, you share this story but claim it was YOU who saw this happen. This is an example of ______.

11. Provide one reason when confabulation is most likely to occur.
QUICK QUIZ TIME!
Provide one reason when confabulation is most likely to occur.

12. QUICK QUIZ TIME!
An extremely emotional event that affects a LARGE amount of people and is stored in long-term memory is called a _____.

13. EYEWITNESS!CAN YOU NAME THESE CELEBS?

14. Note to Self… EXTRA INFO TO BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE.
Loftus Car Crash Experiment – Need footage
Face identification

15. Misleading Information Case Study
Misleading information from other sources can alter what witnesses report
Students were shown a picture of a man with straight hair, but heard a description that mentioned curly hair
When the students were asked to reconstruct the face, 1/3 added curly hair!!

16. OTHER MISLEADINGS ELIZABETH LOFTUS BUGS BUNNY DISNEY AD
Car Crash Study
“Smash” “Bump” or “Contact” vs. “Hit”
BUGS BUNNY DISNEY AD
People claimed to have remembered shaking Bugs’s hand in the Disney parade